The Commodity Priority Setting tool was developed to help users identify country-specific priority commodities in terms of economic impact, importance to the poor, nutritional values, impacts on natural resources, and attractiveness to the private sector

The Commodity Priority Setting tool was developed to help users identify country-specific priority commodities in terms of economic impact, importance to the poor, nutritional values, impacts on natural resources, and attractiveness to the private sector.

The Commodity Priority Setting tool was developed to help users identify country-specific priority commodities in terms of economic impact, importance to the poor, nutritional values, impacts on natural resources, and attractiveness to the private sector.

For a selected region or district and for 3 survey domains (gender of head of household, household income tercile, urban/rural location) the tool queries the entire consumption database and returns mean estimates of the quantity of food items consumed daily per capita. These estimates are derived from a set of nationally-representative household consumption surveys available for 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.